Children and Teens

At FamilyCare, we believe preventative care is essential in helping children and teens stay well and maintain a healthy lifestyle. FamilyCare coverage provides well child exams for babies, children, and teens, including immunizations such as flu and pneumonia vaccines. As children become teens, they begin to take on more responsibility for their own health. It is important for all children to learn about their health and see their provider every year. Teenagers still need recommended vaccinations. We have experienced pediatricians located throughout our coverage area.

FamilyCare is proud to be Oregon’s “family health plan,” serving 50% children through our Medicaid program. We provide an extensive network of pediatricians and primary care providers throughout our service area who are dedicated to preventative care and helping our youngest members stay well and maintain healthy lives. We offer a comprehensive array of health care services for our children, which emphasizes well-child check-ups, early childhood care, immunizations, developmental screenings, and health maintenance. As an incentive for improving healthy lifestyles in children and families, we recently began providing family passes to Tualatin Hills Park and Recreation District (THPRD).

FamilyCare works closely with our entire network of pediatric clinics to provide support and coordination for our members, including children in foster care placement, children with disabilities, and children who have acute conditions such as diabetes, asthma, hemophilia, and other chronic conditions that require immediate care and coordination. While we encourage establishing a primary care provider for your child, we provide education for children seen in the emergency room and follow-up after a child has been admitted to the hospital.

Your child’s health is important to us. Please contact your child’s health care provider to schedule well-child checkups and immunizations when your child is not sick. If your child is new to FamilyCare, please schedule a health check-up within 90 days with one of our pediatricians or primary care providers. For newborn babies, please contact your baby’s health care provider as soon as possible after birth to schedule your baby’s first visit.

For more information, please contact our customer service representatives Monday-Friday 9AM-5PM (800) 458-9518 (503) 345-5702 or TTY (800) 735-2900.

Mental Health Care for Children

Should the need for mental health care services arise, FamilyCare coverage provides care and service coordination to help families obtain necessary mental health and social services for children in need. We support family involvement in the child’s treatment and advocate on the child’s behalf. Services are tailored to fit children with mild to significant mental health care needs. Covered Services include:

• Coordination between primary care and mental health care providers
• Comprehensive mental health assessment and planning from mental health providers
• Intensive outpatient mental health services (home-based services, including skills training)
• Individually tailored mental health services (help for children who may have to leave the home by serving both the child and family with addiction and mental health services)
• Planned and crisis respite (an alternative to hospital or residential stay, providing the child a break from the family or the family a break from the child)
• Community-based crisis stabilization services (crisis services provided in home to help a child avoid having to go to the hospital or residential care)
• Transition age services for 16- to 21-year-olds (service for youth who have started showing a long-term mental health disorder—helps young people make the transition to adulthood and adult mental health services) Covered services for children qualifying for intensive treatment service includes:
• Comprehensive, individualized care coordination.
• Service plan development (coordinated plan compiling goals from multiple systems of care)
• Intensive community based treatment services (24/7 crisis access, in-home skills training, individual and family therapy)
• Psychiatric day treatment
• Psychiatric residential treatment